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I would argue that indigenous inhabits as private citizens have the better claim by virtue of tradition and generational succession, than the 'state' as defacto beneficiary and law…

Why do laws that appropriate private citizens wealth need to be justified? Well, the alternative is wonderful stuff like civil forfeiture law. Whereby a policeman without evidence …

> The land you inherit is not "justly yours". It was the previous owner's thing. You are getting it but it is not your divine right, except that you won the birth lottery by being …

So you would be in favor of taxing someone's social security or charitable receipts - since the benefits are not earned ?

> the tax system treats unearned income and wealth more favourably than earned income. The income was taxed when it was earned. What reason is there to tax it twice? > how you feel…

Where is Minix OS mentioned? How many preemptive processes are running? Which orgs - internal or external to Intel have review-power or signoff on the code running ?

Up until a few weeks ago, people speculated the firmware blobs included a small amount of low-level bootstrap code used to configure IO and to switch from 16 bit to other modes etc…

Do you know technical details - like how many processes are even running under the Minix OS? Also which internal or external groups lead the code development of those processes? Is…

> were going to run a lot more stuff -- think a full JVM Is a JVM really a lot more stuff than Minix OS?

Isn't this why monero exists? By using ring signatures to guarantee fungibility of spendable outputs by making them untraceable? Also, you don't need to resort to property torts, w…

> A $5000 super-duper giga-hash miner barely breaks even, takes forever to ship, and and in a year becomes a paperweight. The fundamentals that make bitcoin so scarce and difficult…

For another (type-theory) perspective - a 'dynamic language' can be automatically considered weakly typed if it can return an runtime exception due a failure to perform a runtime t…

Not sure anyone is conflating ability to mine, with ability to profitably mine.

Do undergraduate fees contribute to a faculty's research funding? And if not why are student fees so high, if there is such a low (albeit understandable) emphasis on undergraduate …

Infineon still haven't said how their hardware is vulnerable?

What does, "practically factorizable" mean?

The more technically competent you are - the more you want to be focused on your domain specialization - syadmin, cloud, development, devops, networking, PM etc. Why would any prof…

Here's some good evidence. Increase in the Monetary Base 1984 - 2010: https://www.aftershockpublishing.com/pub/images/c03f002.jpg

That's interesting. The Windows firmware update works by entirely bypassing the hardware. I wonder if other fabricators could have licensed the same core ip.? > Microsoft is releas…

Will upgrading the firmware fix already generated keys?

> besides a conspiratorial "the NSA needs it to spy on everyone" Isn't the ability to spy on everyone the official mandate of the NSA?